Video game screenshots are a dime a dozen, and they’re used as carefully parsed-out marketing tools for video game PR.

Instead of posting every screenshot we get, we decided to look at a few of the ones released every week and, in the spirit of box art reviews, make fun of them give our commentary or try to guess what’s happening …

The countdown is almost among us. Friday marks one week until we get all holly and jolly for a day, and if you’re anything like us, you’re not anywhere close to being done buying gifts. (Note: This is where we come in.) If you’re in search of a gift for your geek, (young and old, guys and …

Christmas is near and this year I’ve asked for multi-colored fits of anger, vigilante brutality, silly costumes, and revamped classic villains! Or maybe I’m just fidgety because that Iron Man 2 trailer dropped and I want laser whips so, so bad. Here it is, your Panel of the Week!

UPDATE (Jan. 10): The final list has just been announced! Go here to see which films made the cut.

Oh the agony.

Our quest to isolate, consolidate and appreciate the 5 most underrated sci-fi masterpieces has taken more than a few twists and turns. What is true sci-fi? What counts as underrated? What qualifies as a masterpiece. Talk …

Yes. The trailer we’ve been waiting for. This is the way the Iron Man 2 trailer should start. Cocky Tony Stark, talking smack to Congress. The crowds applauding, drowning out the Senator. Robert Downey Jr., flashing that cocky grin.

Geek-fantasy Natalie Portman will take on the roll of Elizabeth Bennet the zombie exterminator in the upcoming film based on the best-selling book by Seth Grahame-Smith and Jane Austen. Portman is also set to produce the film backed by Lionsgate, and we’re hoping she …

Wow, this looks great. It’s gotten, like, ten times better since the Comic-Con footage, which was kinda twee and overly Tim Burtonian.

You know what I mean. Sometimes Burton has just a leetle bit of a tendency to show Johnny Depp tittering in a funny suit and then call it a day. But I’m all in for this one. It looks beautiful. And it …

There isn’t much to say about Turf that hasn’t already been said before. Jonathan Ross is a longtime comic book lover and Turf his first foray into the sequential arts with Tommy Lee Edwards. Look for the first of four issues from Image Comics to hit shelves in April 2010. Flappers, speakeasies, tommy guns and Sci-Fi?! Can’t. …